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    Floral Designers

    Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.

    Median pay
    $37,360
    Growth
    -5.6%
    Decline
    Openings a year
    5,200
    Typical education
    High school diploma

    Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition

    Source: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

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    Annual pay range

    Lowest 10% earn less than
    $28,600
    Median
    $37,360
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $51,000
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    40,590 people work in this occupation.

    What floral designers do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

    Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.

    Usually a high school diploma; some on-the-job training or experience.

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R) · strongest
    68 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    11 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    58 / 100
    Social (S)
    24 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    46 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    48 / 100
    How strongly each interest area describes the work, from O*NET (scores rescaled to 0–100). The interest code lists the strongest areas in order.

    Interest code RAC. Compare it with yours

    What you'd do

    Thinking Creatively
    86
    Getting Information
    82
    Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
    81
    Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
    77
    Handling and Moving Objects
    74
    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    73
    Performing General Physical Activities
    73
    Making Decisions and Solving Problems
    71
    Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
    69
    Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
    69
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Active Listening
    • Speaking
    • Service Orientation
    • Critical Thinking
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Time Management
    • Judgment and Decision Making
    • Monitoring
    • Active Learning
    • Reading Comprehension

    Knowledge

    • Customer and Personal Service
    • Production and Processing
    • English Language
    • Sales and Marketing
    • Design
    • Administrative
    • Mathematics
    • Fine Arts
    • Administration and Management
    • Education and Training

    Abilities

    • Oral Comprehension
    • Oral Expression
    • Visualization
    • Near Vision
    • Originality
    • Visual Color Discrimination
    • Speech Clarity
    • Category Flexibility
    • Arm-Hand Steadiness
    • Fluency of Ideas

    Work styles

    • Attention to Detail
    • Dependability
    • Innovation
    • Social Orientation
    • Cooperation
    • Optimism
    • Adaptability
    • Empathy
    • Sincerity
    • Initiative

    Also called

    Artificial Foliage Arranger · Floral Arranger · Floral Artist · Floral Assistant · Floral Associate · Floral Business Owner · Floral Clerk · Floral Decorator · Floral Designer Salesperson · Floral Specialist

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    Certifications, licenses and pay by state

    What floral designers may need beyond a degree, where a license is required, and what the work pays in each state.

    Certifications

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    Licenses by state

    1 state lists a license for this work. Open your state for the license and the agency that issues it.

    • Louisiana1 license

      • Florist

        Louisiana Horticulture Commission, Weights and Measures, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry

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    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 6, 2026.

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    Sources and attribution

    Every figure on this page comes from these public datasets. Missing values are shown as not reported, never estimated.

    O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. CollegesRef has modified all or some of this information.

    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 6, 2026.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.